@konakarl: " Eslewhere the question of the lack of staying power of some shows, namely 
Family Ties and Newhart, in syndication was brought up.
 Some shows that will have staying power are the likes of Seinfeld and 
Everybody Loves Raymond.
 I'm wondering what newer shows still in production will have that sort of 
longevity in syndication.
If they manage a respectable number of new episodes [7 seasons plus]
 Scrubs
 My Name is Earl
 Two and a Half Men
 CSI & I&O the various iterations help them in syndie longevity IMO"
    @ShutUpRob: "On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:07:49 -0500, "karl" <email_address>
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Nope.  The very disposability of most of the 70's detective shows that
were these franchises' predecessors doomed them to a terribly short
lifespan in syndication.  Same thing will happen with these
franchises.  Once the procedural glut is over, CSI: Original Recipe
and L&O: SVU will likely have respectable runs, but the rest of each
franchise will fade away with 3-4 years after cancellation due to
over-repeating.  They'll probably end up being filler on that Sleuth
digital-tier channel.
   Rob
LORELAI: In the movie, only boy hobbits travel to Mount 
Doom, but that's only because the girls went to do something 
even more dangerous. 
GIRL: What? 
LORELAI: Have you ever heard of a Brazilian Bikini Wax?"
    @writerpatrick: ""Rob Jensen" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Syndication is better for shows with stand-alone episodes rather than 
continuous stories because it's harder to catch these shows on a regular 
basis. The only exception are first-run syndicated shows, though many of 
those work on a stand-alone basis. It's harder to follow a show that's part 
of a longer storyline.
The problem with many shows now is that they overwork the genre. CSI and L&O 
(and even ER) are simply repeating the same basic stories they started with. 
If you've only seen 100 episodes of a series you're more inclined to watch 
reruns of them than if you've seen 300 episodes."
    @konakarl: ""Ad absurdum per aspera" <email_address> wrote in message 
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 I don't know about them. Shows with continuing storylines have trouble in 
syndication.
Yeah I was thinking about that too. Early L&O was overdone on A&E. a lot of 
good shows but after seeing them so many times it gets old. Though MASH 
seems to have managed. Don't ask me how."
    @ShutUpRob: "On 24 Feb 2006 14:17:11 -0800, "Ad absurdum per aspera"
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Packaging dozens of series together isn't called "Sturgeon's Law,"
it's called a Basic Cable Network.
   Rob
LORELAI: In the movie, only boy hobbits travel to Mount 
Doom, but that's only because the girls went to do something 
even more dangerous. 
GIRL: What? 
LORELAI: Have you ever heard of a Brazilian Bikini Wax?"
    @konakarl: ""Ad absurdum per aspera" <email_address> wrote in message 
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  I dunno about that in the case of Seinfeld. It's coming up on 10 years 
since the end of the show and it's still going strong. I think it's on 
something like 10 times a day just in the channels I get. I suspect it will 
rival MASH in longevity and frequency.
 Friends is another I imagine will have a long life."
    @konakarl: ""Patrick Joseph McNamara" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Half hour sitcoms do better than hour long dramas as well."
    @weberm: "<quote>
Talk about damning with faint praise!
Ugh.
I find that one thing which helps shows last in syndication is for it to
have a "timeless" quality, as it were; Shows which are hip and trendy
usually don't do so well after time passes and the viewer's idea of
what is hip and trendy has changed..."
    @konakarl: ""Ubiquitous" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Considering I was neither damning nor praising....
 I was suggesting they would last a long time in sybdication - not that they 
were good."
    @taylortaylor: "<quote>
It sure wasn't 'Throb'. lol Oh, Jonathan Prince, my short, but lovable 
hero. *content sigh*"
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